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Gili Sharir: "I did not want to think that the whole team is on my back"
The 21-year-old judoka defeated the thriller against Italy and marked the way to the bronze medal.
"We knew we had one more chance to rise above," she said after a week full of reviews about the judo team.
And to think that had it not been for the eruption of the corona, it probably would not have reached Tokyo at all
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Yaniv Tuchman, our envoy to Tokyo
Saturday, 31 July 2021, 19:20 Updated: 19:22
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It could also have ended differently. How close it was to another disappointing day in Nippon Budokan. Israel's judo team opened against Italy and at the end of six fights they were tied 3: 3. According to the competition method, one battle is decisive and is determined by lottery. Gili Musir was sent to the mattress. Minutes earlier she had beaten her rival Maria Chantrakio by the same weight and there was a fear that this time a bronze medalist from a few days ago would achieve sporting revenge.
But Muscle was there and won with the whole team on her shoulders. She rose to the battle of her life with all the respect of Israeli judo resting on her spoon and her victory marked the way to a day that finally ended with the happy bronze medal.
Late at night (Tokyo time), a muscle is already in her room in the village trying to digest what she and her friends were doing.
"It was a very long tactical battle, but it was important for me not to think that the whole team was on my back," Sharir described the match at the end of which the whole team could go home with nothing.
"I beat her first and I knew I could beat her again and I was glad it was."
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Muscle (right) in front of Chantracio (Photo: Reuters)
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Sharir (21), who competes in the weight category up to 63 kg, is similar to the Mario de Janeiro medalist, Jordan Jerby, who grew up in Moshav Mazor in the Modi'in region. She was
torn apart
as planned in the summer of 2020, it is highly doubtful she could have participated in it.
Without surgical intervention - and working on a threatening and stressful schedule.
"What happened to us today is madness. It was a very long day," Sharir said here tonight in Tokyo.
"We managed to bring a medal after a very difficult week. We all in judo were very disappointed. We knew we had one more chance to surpass ourselves and bring the medal to Israel and our industry."
This is the most significant medal of a muscle of course, but even before it it does not yet have great achievements in the resume.
"I'm still very young, only 21," she recalls.
"I have a lot more to achieve. This medal is not the end. I just started."
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